Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
- January 10, 2024
- Film Director
Quick Facts
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang Biography
| Birthday | Mar 8 |
| Birth Year | 1962 |
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on March 8, 1962 in Bangkok, Thailand.
Pen-Ek studied from 1977-85 at the Pratt Institute in New York and worked as freelance illustrator and designer with Designframe. In 1993, he started work at the Film Factory in Bangkok, where he worked with Wisit Sasanatieng. At Film Factory, Pen-Ek made several television commercials, for which he won numerous awards, including a bronze medal at the 1997 Cannes Lion Awards for a Clairol anti-dandruff shampoo spot entitled “Dance”.
He made his debut feature film, Fun Bar Karaoke in 1997. It’s the story of a young woman named Pu whose father falls in love with a hostess girl who’s the girlfriend of a mobster. A hitman named Noi (Ray McDonald) is dispatched to kill the father, and Pu ends up falling in love with Noi. Far Bar Karaoke was screened at many film festivals after its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival.
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Film Director |
| House | Living in own house. |
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang is one of the richest Film director from Thailand. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Pen-Ek Ratanaruang 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang (Thai: เป็นเอก รัตนเรือง ; RTGS: Pen-ek Rattanarueang ; born 8 March 1962, Bangkok, Thailand) is a Thai film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his arthouse work, Last Life in the Universe, and is considered to be one of Thai cinema’s leading “new wave” auteurs, alongside Wisit Sasanatieng and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. He goes by the nickname Tom and is sometimes credited as Tom Pannet.
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Pen-Ek then returned to screenwriting with Ploy, which he submitted to the 2006 Pusan International Film Festival’s Pusan Promotion Project in an effort to secure funding. The film was screened at the Director’s Fortnight at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Lalita Panyopas, who starred in Ruang Talok 69, returned to lead the cast, portraying a wife who grows jealous and angry after her husband befriends a teen-age girl.
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Isabelle Ranked on the list of most popular Film Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Thailand. Pen-Ek Ratanaruang celebrates birthday on March 8 of every year.
Pen-Ek was selected to take part in the Digital Short Films by Three Directors project at the 2006 Jeonju International Film Festival. He directed a short called Twelve Twenty, about a young man (Ananda Everingham) who falls in love with a woman he sees on the other side of an airport terminal, and then fantasizes about her throughout a 12-hour, 20-minute airline flight. Christopher Doyle provided cinematography and was also featured in the film as the pilot. The other filmmakers taking part in the project were Singapore’s Eric Khoo and Darezhan Omirbayev from Khazakstan.